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trawler

[traw-ler] / ˈtrɔ lər /
NOUN
fisherman
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Jens Frederiksen, who works at a fishing business in Nuuk running a big shrimp trawler, said there is a divide in opinion between those in the capital and those in other coastal areas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

One foggy morning, we left shore in the dark on a small trawler with Captain Park Hyung-il, who has been fishing anchovies off Korea's south coast for more than 25 years.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

While other experiments with that approach have proven successful, this one results in a hanging work that looks like a trawler accidentally got its haulage caught in a tree.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

In 2016, six Cambodian crew members died from beriberi, a preventable disease, onboard a Thai fishmeal trawler.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025

And way off, we saw a tiny trawler moving, almost imperceptibly, across the dazzling sea.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus




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